Re: DOS Commands?

[oaaland@aol.com (O Aaland)]

>Actually, you don't rename a newly formatted disk to "startup". There's no
files
>to rename since the formatting cleared anything that was on there to begin
with.
>DOS 3.3 automatically creates the startup file using a basic program that is
>currently loaded in the machine.



To clarify a little more, if you use the command INIT STARTUP then when the 
disk is formatted, a file will be created on the disk with the name STARTUP 
and DOS 3.3 will look for a file of that name to run when the disk is booted. 
A more common practice was to name the file HELLO as was the suggested
name in the Apple manuals.

Under ProDOS when a disk is booted with file ProDOS on it, itwill look in the 
directory to find the first file listed that ends in .SYSTEM. If that file is 
BASIC.SYSTEM then it will look for a file called STARTUP and run that file.